do you stop testing with opks after pos?

[angielorna]

Im just curious....how many people actually stop testing after their first pos opk? I keep going and I'm curious if I'm alone in that :P.
Just got my 2nd day of pos opk....
Angie

[bluebonnet22]

I usually test one more just to see the fade out, but I'm a POAS addict. :)

[hotdogz&boyz]

Depends on my reasons for using them (awareness or TTC) and if my body does anything funny. If I get a pretty straight forward mucus progression and then my typical heavy feeling after a positive OPK, I don't bother testing after that first positive. If I get weird reoccurrences of EWCM or don't have any heaviness, I might test again. When I conceived my daughter, I got two positive OPKs two days apart (negative in the interim). So clearly something happened there. We did get pregnant because we BD again. But had I stopped testing, I might have missed that second surge (might not have mattered, but still, you get the idea).

[Abifasc]

I did his past month, because I was sure it was positive at 11pm on Saturday when we Dtd and then it stayed positive until about 6pm on Sunday, that's why I thought we were out...I assumed we'd attempted too early!

[atomic sagebrush]

I often have people continue testing in case the first positive was a faker. It's up to you, though...if you're pretty sure it's the real deal, you may not need to do that.

[The Anchor]

I usually stop after first +OPK...but...I have other symptoms that let me know for sure when I am ovulating.

[maidentomother]

I keep testing until I get my temp rise.

[JenB17]

Can I ask then, approx. for how long are you likely to get a +opk for?
When ttc this baby I was just going on cm as I hadn't had much luck with getting a +opk. So when I felt things were 'right' we dtd. I tested the next day and it was +opk, lol! However, I really that this + actually came day after O. Is that likely? Could I still get a +opk the day after O?

When I try to work out conception dates (knowing we only had 1x attempt) it seems that we could only really have conceived on the actual night of dtd (O day). I could be wrong though - just curious! Hope this makes sense?!

x

[The Anchor]

You'll get your first +OPK 8 - 48 hours in ADVANCE of O. But for some ladies you can have a + over 2 or 3 days. So it is in fact possible to get a + on the day you are O'ing. I get other symptoms too, where I just KNOW when I'm O'ing, but it's impossible to nail it down to the hour, so to speak. I've just know what my 2 day window is :)

[stephk]

JenB are you PG?

[maidentomother]

Can I ask then, approx. for how long are you likely to get a +opk for?
When ttc this baby I was just going on cm as I hadn't had much luck with getting a +opk. So when I felt things were 'right' we dtd. I tested the next day and it was +opk, lol! However, I really that this + actually came day after O. Is that likely? Could I still get a +opk the day after O?

When I try to work out conception dates (knowing we only had 1x attempt) it seems that we could only really have conceived on the actual night of dtd (O day). I could be wrong though - just curious! Hope this makes sense?!

x

it is very common and normal to have 2 days in a row of positive OPKs, and not uncommon to have 3 days or more. And since you can O 1, 2, 3 or more days after a positive, it is very possible to still have positives after you've Oed.

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[JenB17]

Thanks ladies-all very interesting!
And 'yes' I am expecting my third (and final!) little bundle Steph ��.
Xx

[stephk]

Congrats :) hope it's going well

[SamS_TTCPink]

Congrats JenB17.

[maidentomother]

Congrats Jen!

[atomic sagebrush]

Can I ask then, approx. for how long are you likely to get a +opk for?
When ttc this baby I was just going on cm as I hadn't had much luck with getting a +opk. So when I felt things were 'right' we dtd. I tested the next day and it was +opk, lol! However, I really that this + actually came day after O. Is that likely? Could I still get a +opk the day after O?

When I try to work out conception dates (knowing we only had 1x attempt) it seems that we could only really have conceived on the actual night of dtd (O day). I could be wrong though - just curious! Hope this makes sense?!

x

Pos OPK come before O, not afterwards.

What makes you say you could only have conceived that day? Sperm can stay alive for days after deposit.

[atomic sagebrush]

it is very common and normal to have 2 days in a row of positive OPKs, and not uncommon to have 3 days or more. And since you can O 1, 2, 3 or more days after a positive, it is very possible to still have positives after you've Oed.

It is

I agree but it was her first positive, which leads me to believe she had not ovualted when she got it. :)

Sometimes the surge takes awhile to clear so you can still get pos after ovulation, but usually it begins before ovulation.

[JenB17]

I guess its always going to be super hard to pinpoint the exact day of conception as without knowing exactly when O took place, how do you really know?

I wasn't getting anywhere with the Opks so gave up using them for a few days and just used other telltale signs to approximate a good time to dtd - just so happens that I was able to take a test the next day and got a +opk. If I did take it the day before then it 'could' have been positive then too or maybe the day before that - Im really not sure.

What made me think that I must have conceived on a particular day is that based on the due date I have been given I have been using online calculators to give me an approx. date of conception. Almost all of them are telling me a few days BEFORE when we actually dtd!! So I have just assumed that it must have been pretty much within 24hrs of dtd. Does that make any sense, lol?

x

[atomic sagebrush]

Yes exactly, and studies have shown even people with a high level of expertise get the day of ovualtion wrong betwen 30-60% of the time

The online due date calculators are barely for anything more than fun LOL. I would not take them at all seriously.

[JenB17]

ok, thanks Atomic :)